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Theragun on my foot felt amazing for an hour. Then it came back worse. Three months in I realized: it was a bandaid. The fascia underneath wasn't healing — it was just numbing. I'm not alone in this. There's a whole thread on r/PlantarFasciitis from a guy who posted "massage gun fixed my PF," then came back a year later to update: "it was a bandaid fix, it just came back." 318 upvotes on the original. He finally had to admit it. Here's what I eventually figured out: percussion pushes on the tissue. It doesn't move blood through it. And tendons already have terrible circulation. The foot is even worse. So you're beating on something that's already starved for blood flow, wondering why it keeps flaring back up. What actually changed things for me was switching to something that does the opposite — gentle vibration, heat to open up the vessels, and EMS to get blood actually moving through the tissue. Not pressure. Flow. I was skeptical. Almost didn't try it because I'd already spent money on tools that didn't do what they promised. But the mechanism made sense in a way percussion never did for me. Morning limp is basically gone. Not gone after a session. Gone when I wake up. Might not be for everyone. But if you're in the same loop I was — great relief, wakes up worse — it's worth looking into what's actually happening down there.